Fly above Xinjiang, a vast and diverse region in western China, where rugged mountains, vast deserts, and vibrant cities ...

When China’s president Xi Jinping laid out his plans to establish a “New Silk Road” across Central Asia in 2013, he was doing more than invoking China’s distant past. Instead, he was ...

The South Pacific appears on the latest route map of the Silk Road Initiative released by China's national television. The blueprint shows the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road running through the ...

China’s modern-day adaptation, known as the Belt and Road Initiative, aims to revive and extend those routes via networks of upgraded or new railways, ports, pipelines, power grids and highways.

It’s the clearest vision to date of the scope of China’s Silk Road plan. According to the map, the land-based “New Silk Road” will begin in Xi’an in central China before stretching west ...

Rickety vehicles ply Route 312, which parallels the old Silk Road, carrying traders who deal in cell phones rather than silk and spices. NPR's Rob Gifford continues his 3,000-mile journey across ...

The route is actually not new at all. It is part of the old Silk Road, which commenced in 200 BC, through which Chinese silk caravans carried wears to Europe and Africa.

Bunting’s map and Israel on China’s new silk road Oct 15, 2016, 7:19 PM ... Israel as key node on China’s New Silk Road. ... while it was in the Suez Canal en route to northern Europe.

A new book of photographs captures the landscapes, buildings and faces along the route that once conveyed untold wealth ...

China’s overland prong of the “New Silk Road” is important to China because it helps to wean it from overreliance on maritime routes in the South and East China Seas, where tensions have ...

China’s New Silk Road Hinges on a Small Pakistan Port Mountains, disputed territory and armed rebels lie in the way of China's route to the Arabian Sea. Facebook ...

FUZHOU, China—For hundreds of years, China used the Silk Road to ship porcelain, tea and other goods around the world. Now the nation is using a new incarnation of the old trading network to ...